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John McCausland, C. S. A. Edward J. McClernand.
Irvin McDowell. John C. McFerran. W. L. McMillen.
Humphrey Marshall, C. S. A. (supra). William L. Marshall. Eli H. Murray. Elisha F. Paxton, C. S. A. John T. Pickett, Hungarian Army of Kossuth (supra). Thomas Posey. John S. Preston, C. S. A.
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William Preston, C. S. A. (supra).
Samuel Woodson Priee.
William Russell.
William Read Scurry, C. S. A.
John Sevier.
Joseph O. Shelby, C. S. A. Alexander Smyth.
John Dunlap Stevenson.
J. E. B. Stuart, C. S. A.
Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan.
James B. Terrill, C. S. A. William Rufus Terrill.
J. G. Tilford.
Robert Brank Vanee, C. S. A.
James Alexander Walker, C. S. A.
Lucius Marsh Walker, C. S. A.
William Harvey Lamb Wallaee. William Hugh Young, C. S. A.
REAR ADMIRALS
John M. Bowyer.
William B. Caperton.
John C. Fremont, 2nd.
Albert Gleaves.
Joseph N. Hemphill.
William Radford.
Chapman Coleman Todd.
Commodore Joseph E. Montgomery of the Con- federate States independent naval service.
NATIONAL SENATORS
The following are national senators and the states by them represented :
Robert H. Adams, Mississippi.
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James Lusk Alcorn, Mississippi.
John Bell, Tennessee (supra).
Francis P. Blair, Jr., Missouri (supra). John Breckinridge, Kentucky (supra).
John Cabell Breckinridge, Kentucky (supra).
Jesse D. Bright, Indiana, President pro tempore of the Senate.
B. Gratz Brown, Missouri.
James Brown, Louisiana (supra).
John Brown, Kentucky, President pro tempore of the Senate.
Joseph E. Brown, Georgia.
William G. Brownlow, Tennessee.
John Caldwell Calhoun, South Carolina (supra).
Hugh Taylor Caperton, West Virginia, Confed- erate States Senator from Virginia.
John G. Carlisle, Kentucky (supra).
Edward W. Carmack, Tennessee.
Thomas B. Catron, New Mexico.
John Ewing Colhoun, South Carolina.
Joseph Moore Dixon, Montana.
William L. D. Ewing, Illinois.
Jesse J. Finley, elected a United States Senator from Florida, but not seated (supra).
Randall Lee Gibson, Louisiana (supra).
Nathan Goff, Jr., West Virginia (supra).
James Guthrie, Kentucky (supra).
James Hamilton, elected a United States Senator from Texas, but died before taking seat (supra). James M. Harvey, Kansas.
Landon C. Haynes, Confederate States Senator from Tennessee.
Samuel Houston, Texas (supra).
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John W. Johnston, Virginia.
Blair Lee, Maryland.
John F. Lewis, Virginia. William Lindsay, Kentucky.
William Logan, Kentucky.
James B. MeCreary, Kentucky.
Thomas Clay MeCreery, Kentucky.
John McKinley, Alabama (supra).
Augustus Summerfield Merrimon, North Carolina. Andrew Moore, Virginia.
Thomas Morris, Ohio.
George S. Nixon, Nevada. Robert L. Owens, Oklahoma.
David Trotter Patterson, Tennessee.
Samuel Henry Piles, Washington.
Miles Poindexter, Washington.
Augustus S. Porter, Michigan.
Thomas Posey, Louisiana (supra).
William B. Preston, Confederate States Senator from Virginia (supra).
William C. Preston, South Carolina.
William A. Richardson, Illinois.
Harrison H. Riddleberger, Virginia.
Ambrose H. Sevier, Arkansas (supra).
William L. Sharkey, elected a United States Sena- tor from Mississippi, but not seated.
Daniel Smith, Tennessee. Marcus Aurelius Smith, Arizona.
Robert L. Taylor, Tennessee.
William A. Trimble, Ohio.
Oscar W. Underwood, Alabama.
Zebulon B. Vance, North Carolina.
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Hugh Lawson White, Tennessee. John Lockwood Wilson, Washington.
Robert Wilson, Missouri .*
MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CONFEDERATE STATES HOUSES OF REPRESENTATIVES
The following are Augusta county's progeny who have been members of the Confederate States House of Representatives and members of and delegates to the United States House of Representatives up to
*Among other United States Senators under Augusta county influence, through having been educated, as were some of those above, in the Virginia county of Rockbridge-once a part of Augusta county-by professors of Augusta county descent at Washington College, afterwards Washington and Lee University, are: Nathan P. Bryan, Florida; William J. Bryan, Florida; George E. Chamberlain, Oregon; John J. Crittenden, Kentucky (Attorney General of the United States, Governor of Kentucky); Powhatan Ellis, Mississippi (Min- ister to Mexico); Henry S. Foote, Mississippi (Governor of Mississippi); Murphy J. Foster, Louisiana (Governor of Lou- isiana); Jackson Morton, Florida; Richard E. Parker, Vir- ginia; Robert E. Strange, North Carolina.
Others who were educated at this institution are: Joseph R. Lamar, Justice of the United States Supreme Court; Thomas Todd, Justice of the United States Supreme Court; Robert Trimble, Justice of the United States Supreme Court; Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War; Seth Barton, Minister to Chile; William Crump, Minister to Chile; Thomas Nelson Page, Ambassador to Italy; William A. Seay, Minister to Bolivia; General William L. Brandon, C. S. A .; General Ra- leigh E. Colston, C. S. A .; General John Pope Duvall, Texan Army (Governor of Florida); General John Echols, C. S. A .; General James L. Kemper, C. S. A. (Governor of Virginia); General Edwin G. Lee, C. S. A .; Luther E. Hall, Governor of Louisiana: Meriwether Lewis, Governor of Louisiana Ter- ritory; Philip W. Mckinney, Governor of Virginia; Charles T. O'Ferrall, Governor of Virginia; Archibald Roan, Governor of Tennessee; and a number of members of the United States and Confederate States Houses of Representatives.
The force of this seat of learning through its alumni as presidents of colleges and universities in the South and West has been strong. Through the Alexanders at Princeton its influence has extended even into the North.
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and including the 38th Congress, ending with the Civil War.
After the war, there have been many more-such as Edward J. Gay of Louisiana, Jordan E. Cravens of Arkansas, and William P. MeLean of Texas in the farthest south, William R. Ellis of Oregon and . Lindley H. Hadley of Washington in the farthest west, Lafe Penee of Colorado and Charles B. Timber- lake of Colorado in the Rocky mountain states, Eugene McC. Wilson of Minnesota and Edwin Denby of Michigan in the north, Frank B. Fulkerson of Missouri, John A. T. Hull of Iowa, George A. Ander- son of Illinois, Carter H. Harrison of Illinois, Silas Z. Landes of Illinois, Medill MeCormick of Illinois, John R. Thomas of Illinois (the "father of the Amer- ican navy," so important now), William D. Bynum of Indiana, William Eastin English of Indiana, James LaFayette Evans of Indiana, Charles A. Kor- bly of Indiana, Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, and Samuel Talbott Neal of Ohio, in the middle west- with Champ Clark of Missouri, the present Speaker of the House of Representatives. They still main- tain themselves at the fore. Since 1865, several family names have been represented by two mem- bers in the lower House of the Congress :
Adam B. Alexander, Tennessee.
Robert Allen, Tennessee.
J. Patton Anderson, Delegate from Washington Territory, Member of the Confederate States Pro- visional Congress from Florida (supra).
Simeon Hopkins Anderson, Kentucky.
William Clayton Anderson, Kentucky.
John B. Baldwin, Member of the Confederate States House of Representatives from Virginia.
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John Bell, Tennessee, Speaker of the House of Rep- resentatives (supra).
Franeis P. Blair, Jr., Missouri (supra).
John Blair, Tennessee.
John H. Bowen, Tennessee.
John Boyle, Kentucky.
James Breekinridge, Virginia.
James D. Breekinridge, Kentucky.
John Cabell Breekinridge, Kentucky (supra).
Robert J. Breekinridge, Jr., Member of the Con- federate States House of Representatives from Ken- tucky.
John Brown, Virginia, Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia (supra).
Joseph Burns, Ohio.
Edward C. Cabell, Florida.
John Calhoun, Kentucky.
John Caldwell Calhoun, South Carolina (supra).
Joseph Calhoun, South Carolina.
Jolın W. Campbell, Ohio.
Thomas J. Campbell, Tennessee.
William B. Campbell, Tennessee (supra).
Hugh Caperton, Virginia.
Samuel P. Carson, North Carolina (supra).
Robert Looney Caruthers, Tennessee, Member of the Confederate States Provisional Congress from Tennessee.
Augustus A. Chapman, Virginia.
Arthur St. Clair Colyar, Member of the Confed- erate States House of Representatives from Tennes- see.
Robert Craig, Virginia.
James A. Cravens, Indiana.
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James H. Cravens, Indiana.
John W. Crockett, Member of the Confederate States House of Representatives from Kentucky.
Allen T. Davidson, Member of the Confederate States Provisional Congress from North Carolina, Member of the Confederate States House of Repre- sentatives from North Carolina.
Joseph Draper, Virginia.
George W. Dunlap, Kentucky.
William C. Dunlap, Tennessee (supra).
George G. Dunn, Indiana.
George H. Dunn, Indiana.
William MeKee Dunn, Indiana (supra).
Henry A. Edmundson, Virginia.
William H. English, Indiana.
Benjamin Estil, Virginia.
Andrew Ewing, Tennessee.
Edwin H. Ewing, Tennessee.
George W. Ewing, Member of the Confederate States Provisional Congress from Kentucky, Member of the Confederate States House of Representatives from Kentucky.
Presley Ewing, Kentucky.
John Floyd, Virginia.
Andrew S. Fulton, Virginia.
John H. Fulton, Virginia.
John P. Gaines, Kentucky.
Felix Grundy, Tennessee (supra). William Hall, Tennessee.
James Hamilton, South Carolina (supra).
John J. Hardin, Illinois.
Thomas S. Haymond, Virginia.
Samuel Houston, Tennessee (supra).
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Benjamin Howard, Kentucky (supra).
Edward B. Jackson, Virginia.
George Jackson, Virginia.
Jolın G. Jackson, Virginia.
Albert G. Jenkins, Virginia, Member of the Con- federate States House of Representatives from Vir- ginia (supra).
Robert Johnston, Member of the Confederate States Provisional Congress from Virginia, Member of the Confederate States House of Representatives from Virginia.
Austin A. King, Missouri.
John Leteher, Virginia.
Thomas Lewis, Virginia.
William J. Lewis, Virginia.
Abraham Lincoln, Illinois (supra).
Abraham MeClellan, Tennessee.
Felix G. McConnell, Alabama.
Joseph W. McCorkle, California.
William McCoy, Virginia. James McDowell, Virginia.
Joseph J. MeDowell, Ohio.
John H. MeHenry, Kentucky.
John McKee, Alabama. Samuel McKee, Kentucky.
John McKinley, Alabama (supra.)
William MeMillan, Delegate from the Territory Northwest of the Ohio River.
Fayette McMullen, Virginia, Member of the Con- federate States House of Representatives from Vir- ginia.
Alexander K. Marshall, Kentucky.
Edward C. Marshall, California.
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Humphrey Marshall, Kentucky (supra).
Thomas F. Marshall, Kentucky. Elbert Sevier Martin, Virginia. John P. Martin, Kentucky. George Matthews, Georgia. John Gaines Miller, Missouri.
Thomas Montgomery, Kentucky.
Andrew Moore, Virginia (supra).
Samuel McDowell Moore, Virginia.
Calvary Morris, Ohio.
Isaac N. Morris, Illinois. Jonathan D. Morris, Ohio.
Thomas A. R. Nelson, Tennessee (supra).
Balie Peyton, Tennessee (supra).
Joseph Hopkins Peyton, Tennessee.
Andrew Pickens, South Carolina.
Francis W. Pickens, South Carolina (supra). Francis Preston, Virginia.
Walter Preston, Member of the Confederate States Provisional Congress from Virginia, Member of the Confederate States House of Representatives from Virginia.
William Preston, Kentucky (supra).)
William B. Preston, Member of the Confederate States Provisional Congress from Virginia (supra). John Rhea, Tennessee.
William A. Richardson, Illinois (supra).
George Robertson,* Kentucky. Richardson Scurry, Texas.
Ambrose H. Sevier, Delegate from Arkansas Ter- ritory (supra).
*He twice declined a seat upon the bench of the United States Supreme Court, four times a seat in the Cabinet, and twice ministerships to foreign countries.
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John Sevier, North Carolina, Tennessee (supra). Solomon P. Sharp, Kentucky.
William Russell Smith, Alabama, Member of the Confederate States House of Representatives from Alabama.
Alexander Smyth, Virginia (supra).
Archibald Stewart, Virginia.
Alexander H. H. Stuart, Virginia (supra).
John T. Stuart, Illinois.
Jacob Swoope, Virginia.
Samuel F. Swope, Kentucky.
Nathaniel G. Taylor, Tennessee.
Abram Trigg, Virginia.
John Trigg, Virginia.
Carey A. Trimble, Ohio.
Andrew Trumbo, Kentucky.
John J. Van Meter, Ohio.
Robert B. Vance, North Carolina.
Zebulon B. Vance, North Carolina (supra).
Harvey McGee Watterson, Tennessee (supra).
Edgar McC. Wilson, Virginia.
James Wilson, Indiana (supra).
Thomas Wilson, Virginia.
GOVERNORS
The following are governors and the states and territories of which they were chief executives: James Lusk Alcorn, Mississippi (supra).
J. Patton Anderson, Washington Territory (supra) George W. Atkinson, West Virginia.
John Boyle, appointed Governor of Illinois Terri- tory, but did not serve (supra).
B. Gratz Brown, Missouri (supra).
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Joseph E. Brown, Georgia (supra).
Joseph M. Brown, Georgia. William G. Brownlow, Tennessee (supra).
James S. Calhoun, New Mexico Territory. David Campbell, Virginia.
William B. Campbell, Tennessee (supra).
Robert Looney Caruthers, elected Governor of Tennessee, but not inaugurated (supra).
Orion Clemens, Nevada Territory.
Henry Connelly, New Mexico Territory.
Thomas T. Crittenden, Missouri (supra).
Joseph W. Fifer, Illinois. John Floyd, Virginia (supra). John B. Floyd, Virginia (supra).
David Rowland Francis, Missouri (supra).
John P. Gaines, Oregon Territory (supra). George R. Gilmer, Georgia.
Herbert S. Hadley, Missouri.
William Hall, Tennessee (supra).
James Hamilton, South Carolina (supra).
J. Frank Hanly, Indiana. Nathaniel Edwin Harris, Georgia.
James M. Harvey, Kansas (supra).
Samuel Houston, Tennessee, Texas (supra).
Benjamin Howard, Missouri Territory (supra).
Jacob B. Jackson, West Virginia. Austin A. King, Missouri (supra). J. Proctor Knott, Kentucky. John Letcher, Virginia (supra).
William A. MacCorkle, West Virginia.
James B. McCreary, Kentucky (supra). James McDowell, Virginia (supra).
Fayette McMullen, Washington Territory (supra).
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Alexander G. McNutt, Mississippi.
George Madison, Kentucky.
Beriah Magoffin, Kentucky.
George Matthews, Georgia (supra).
Henry M. Matthews, West Virginia.
Eli H. Murray, Utah Territory (supra).
John B. Neil, Idaho Territory.
Patrick Noble, South Carolina.
Robert M. Patton, Alabama. Andrew Pickens, South Carolina.
Francis W. Pickens, South Carolina (supra).
Thomas Posey, Indiana Territory (supra).
James P. Preston, Virginia.
William A. Richardson, Nebraska Territory (supra).
Joseph Draper Sayers, Texas.
John Sevier, State of Franklin, Tennessee (supra).
William L. Sharkey, Provisional Governor of Mississippi (supra).
Lon V. Stephens, Missouri.
Henry C. Stuart, Virginia.
Robert L. Taylor, Tennessee (supra).
Allen Trimble, Ohio.
J. Hoge Tyler, Virginia.
Zebulon B. Vance, North Carolina (supra).
William Walker, Provisional Governor of Ne- braska Territory.
PIONEERS
One of the greatest influences of Augusta county were its pioneers in the conquest and settlement of the South and West, a movement no less important than the migration of the northern tribes into the Roman Empire-the epic of America.
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The books upon western Virginia mention prac- tically all of Augusta county's celebrated men on the Virginia border. Unless they are associated with other western places, there is omission of these. It is true this Virginiana ineludes references to these men. Also that some of these volumes, such as Peyton's and Waddell's histories of Augusta county, have had a seal of approval by appearing in such a bibliography as that in the "Guide to the Study and Reading of American History," by Pro- fessors Channing, Hart and Turner, of Harvard. Nevertheless, satisfactory histories of Augusta coun- ty, western Virginia and, for that matter, of the trans-Allegheny country and the Ohio valley, re- main to be written.
Hundreds with Augusta county sires have been brave men upon every frontier from Virginia to Florida, Texas, California and the Great Lakes. Greece, Rome and Chivalry have no greater heroes. One need not seek the classics of Europe for in- trepidity and romance.
A large group of the early hunters, explorers and founders of stations in Kentucky, Tennessee and western communities were Augusta countymen. They and their children in the vanguard crossed the Mississippi. Some have gone on even to other continents.
It may not be said that this blood on the farthest front is always diluted. Of those most remote, Colonel Joseph L. Meek, of Oregon, had the Au- gusta name of Meek and his mother was a Walker. "Kit" Carson's mother was a Robertson from the Greenbrier. Colonel William Craig, of Washing- ton, was born on the same river. Jo Walker, who guided Freemont, the "Pathfinder," who was urged
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on by a wife-whose mother was all Augustan- was full of the blood of the nursery of borderers.
Around the southern and western rim of Ameri- ca's colonization and annexation-Matthews in Florida, Houston in Texas, Magoffin in New Mex- ico, Meek in Oregon-Augusta county's offspring were outstanding figures.
The term pioneer is here used in a broad sense. It is impracticable to specify all. On account of their prominence-because of priorities, their as- cendancy in their localities and the memorable honors bestowed upon them-a selection has been arbitrarily made.
Virginia has made a large part and written little of the nation's history. Massachusetts historians' names crowd every library. But this list of pio- neers, which could be extended, is some of the testimony for the nobility of the Old Dominion.
There is not one newspaper frontiersman or mov- ing picture western hero among these who helped to win the West:
Colonel John Allen,* killed at the River Raisin, in honor of whom Allen county, Kentucky, is named.
Captain John Allen, one of the two founders of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Colonel Robert Allen, commander of a regiment of Tennessee militia in the Seminole war (supra).
*It must not by any means be understood that there is any pretense of stating all biographical facts in the lives of this pioneer and those following. Only striking, important and un- known events in their lives are given.
In addition to Allen county and the many following coun- ties named in honor of pioneers, there are a large number of counties in the United States named in honor of statesmen herein. The origin of the latter names are usually well known.
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The Reverend William Youell Allen, chaplain of the Congress of the Republic of Texas.
General Joseph Caldwell Anderson, legislator and pro-slavery leader of Kansas, in honor of whom Anderson county, Kansas, is named.
General Robert Anderson, of South Carolina, in honor of whom Anderson county, South Carolina, is named.
Colonel William P. Anderson, colonel of the 24th infantry, U. S. A., in the War of 1812.
General Matthew Arbuckle, commander of the expedition against the Fowltown Indians (supra).
Major Lanty Armstrong, second in command in Slaughter's Kentucky regiment at New Orleans, which, in the center, withstood the choicest troops then on earth, brought to Louisiana in England's then most expensive expedition, costing two hun- dred million dollars, some of which troops destroyed Napoleon's Old Guard at Waterloo, the result at New Orleans being the greatest shock British pride lad then ever experienced.
J. W. Bashford, Methodist Episcopal missionary bishop in China.
Captain William Bean, who in 1769-70 became the "first Tennesseean,"* settling first at Boone's creek, near Johnson City, Tennessee, and afterwards at Bean's station, Grainger county, Tennessee.
H. S. Beatie, first to erect a house in Nevada and first to settle in the Carson valley of that state.
Dr. Gideon Blackburn, superintendent of mission- ary work among the Cherokees and educator in three states.
*Historical priorities, there being others among the pio- neers, are dangerous. There is always the liability someone will come along with some incident earlier than the one that has been recited.
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General Samuel Blackburn, orator of Georgia and Tennessee, as well as Virginia.
Captain John Blakemore, who with Colonel John Donelson, his ranking officer, was one of the two admirals of the little fleet, subject to smallpox and Indian volleys, carrying the men and women down the Tennessee river, first to settle in the Cumber- land district.
Colonel Anthony Bledsoe, of Tennessee, killed by the Indians, in honor of whom Bledsoe county, Ten- nessee, is named.
The Boggs of California, arrivals there in 1848.
The Boones of Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado, of whom was Colonel Daniel Boone, in honor of whom counties in eight states are named .*
Colonel John Bowman, county lieutenant of the county of Kentucky, colonel of the Kentucky militia in 1776, and commander of Bowman's expedition of 1779 against the Indians.
Colonel William Bowyer, who with a body of men reinforced McIntosh on the Ohio in 1776.
Matthew Bracken, Kentucky hunter, killed at the battle of Point Pleasant, whose name was given to a Kentucky creck, whence a Kentucky county took its name.
William Bratton, one of the immortal Lewis and Clark expedition, discoverers of America's North- west.
General Robert Breckinridge, first speaker of the house of representatives of Kentucky and member of the Virginia constitutional convention of 1788.
*In the index of the "Descriptive List of the Manuscript Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin," which society owns the famous Draper collection, there are some of the Boones, their relatives and neighbors, who had connections with Augusta county, but not all of them.
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Captain John S. Brooks, aide to Colonel James W. Fannin at the Fannin massacre, and who, unable to walk, was carried out and shot by the Mexicans. Morgan Bryan (Bryant), one of the first men to 'take up land" in Western North Carolina.
Captain William Bryan (Bryant), founder of Bryan's (Bryant's) station, Kentucky, near Lex- ington, at which station the Indian siege occurred.
Colonel John Buchanan, who with others made an expedition to the West in 1748, possibly as far as Kentucky.
George Calhoun, a lieutenant with George Rog- ers Clark and first to survey the Ohio river west of Louisville.
James S. Calhoun, United States Indian agent in New Mexico in 1849 (supra).
Captain Patrick Calhoun, Indian fighter and lead- er in the Long Cane settlement, South Carolina.
Captain James Callaway, killed while with his rangers in Missouri in 1814, in honor of whom Cal- laway county, Missouri, is named.
Colonel Arthur Campbell, of Tennessee, in honor of whom Campbell county, Tennessee, is named.
Captain John Campbell, who settled at the "Royal Oak" estate in Tennessee and was an officer at the battle of Long Island Flats in 1776.
Colonel John Campbell, of Kentucky, in honor of whom Campbell county, Kentucky, is named.
Colonel John B. Campbell, who fell at Chippewa, while commanding the right wing of Scott's army
Captain William Patton Anderson Campbell, an explorer in Africa in 1868 for the Khedive, upon which expedition he died.
General Christopher ("Kit") Carson, moun- taineer and guide to Fremont, the "Pathfinder," in
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honor of whom Kit Carson county, Colorado, and Carson county, Nevada-this once important Ne- vada county not now in existence-and the capital of Nevada, are named (supra).
Samuel P. Carson, of Texas, in honor of whom Carson county, Texas, is named (supra).
General Gracey Childers, colonel of the "fighting first Tennessee," in the Islands of Luzon, Panay and Cebu, the Philippines.
Colonel William Christian, who commanded 1,200 Virginians on the Cherokee expedition of 1776 and a settler of 1785 on Bear Grass, Kentucky, killed in a punitive expedition against the savages in 1785, in honor of whom Christian county, Kentucky, is named-the counties of that name in Illinois and Missouri having been named by settlers from and in memory of the mother county in Kentucky.
Ralph Clayton, founder of Clayton, county seat of St. Louis county, Missouri.
Governor Henry Connelley, trader on the Santa Fe trail and explorer of Oklahoma and northern Texas in 1839-40 (supra).
Colonel William Craig, mountain man of the American Fur Company, associate of Carson and Meek, Indian agent in Washington and assistant to Governor Isaac I. Stevens in making treaties with the Washington and Idaho Indians, incorrectly credited with having given the State of Idaho its name.
Thomas Brown Craighead, legislator of Arkan- sas, in honor of whom Craighead county, Arkansas, is named.
Colonel Joseph Crockett, commander of the Crockett regiment in the Illinois campaign with General George Rogers Clark.
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Judge Joseph B. Crockett, jurist, of the supreme court of California.
Robert Crockett, Long Hunter and first white man killed by the Indians in Tennessee.
Colonel Walter Crockett, who was at Olympia, Washington, in 1851.
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